Chingu Weekly Vol. 38
More people getting jobs, lots of finished team B2L projects, and the Voyage team-project cohort has been launched!

News & Random
— Congratulations @ludralph who just got a new developer job at Andela (you know, that company Mark Zuckerberg is personally funding)!
— Congratulations @sparta for getting your first developer job in sunny California!
— Congratulations @maximk for getting a developer job in Berlin!
— Congratulations @nmead for getting the dev job offer!
— Big shout-out to Francesco Agnoletto, who though being employed for a few months now, officially became a digital nomad when he moved to Spain last weekend, still fully employed as a developer!
— THE CHINGU-VOYAGE Build-to-Learn cohort launched last weekend and so far it has been A RAMBUNCTIOUS SUCCESS (we blew by Slack’s 10,000 message limit in 2 days ;p)!
88 remote dev teams with people from 40+ countries have been unleashed to build software together! We’ll be pruning and organizing teams as needed to ensure the people truly committed get the best opportunity possible. We are serious about our mission to be a collaboration city for developers on the web!
Have fun overcoming challenges (yes there will be challenges) together B2L teams! And don’t forget to open up a ticket (can be found in #chingu-voyage-news channel) if you have any issues.
— One more thing: Dev-Gaido, a Chingu moonshot project, will be doing beta-testing this week with a small group from Central and with the Voyage cohort. Keep your eyes out for that! :)
Showcase & Shout-outs
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @sandra-d, @jarold, @sandbin42,tlannoye11— Check out this gorgeous baseball game discovery app!

@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @agathalynn & @dsegovia — Abigail (agathalynn) and Daniel Segovia have built this awesome Pair-Programming bot/tool for the cohorts. We’re going to be beta-testing it in the Voyage cohort in the coming weeks and then bring it over to Central so people can find pair-programming matches with ease! Such an amazing finished project!
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @benjaminadk — Ben Brooke is not messing around! Looks like he has already built a bot and communicated with his B2L team via this cool video! Also, I recommend checking out his youtube as he has lots of videos about doing FCC projects!
@groninge — Have a look at @groninge’s weather app here!
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @afixoftrix, Kenneth Amanfo Junior, @ashenmaster, @benjaminadk — Say hello to the Gigglebot! Giggle bot is a slack bot that increases the humor levels of your slack chat room.

@oxyrus — Here’s an article Andrés Pérez kindly wrote called How to get the most out of Voyage to help new members!
@jlouzado — Here’s a great article by Joel Louzado called How I estimate time for projects.
@BUILD-TO-LEARN — @zamhaq, @linus, @premprakashsingh — @zamhaq, @linus, and premprakashsingh built MEETUP bot, a way to find meetups in any city based on interests. This is wonderful!

Overheard in Chingu
I am poised to start building a project and overcome the fear of failure.
I told one of my teachers about Chingu, he said it was one of the most exciting projects he had ever heard of
Totally. Everywhere you look in here there’s someone working super hard at all times of the day. There’s motivation around every corner. I love it here.
Gym has made my confidence high, I talked with a random person today and didn’t die….
Make amazing things, we will — Growth in skills, happen it will — :relieved: we need a Yoda bot…
We come from different backgrounds and cultures but share similar goals. It’s amazing…
I embrace “I don’t know what the Hell I’m doing’ because that means I’m learning and if I’m learning I’m having fun. Especially when that “a-ha” moment arrives when I do get it and I can start all over in a new subject area.
I love spending time looking at crappy code and finding way to refactor it. spend my weekends doing that, find it relaxing
See the rest of this week’s Overheard in Chingu edition here.
Chingus of the Week
Massive thanks to all the Cohort-Leads from the June general cohort session! Running a cohort is not an easy job and takes a whole of time, effort, soft-skills, etc. We had 14 different cohorts so it was a MASSIVE undertaking, and we’ve learned so much about what to improve in the future. Thank you so much!

